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Craig Lawrence is charged with attempted invasive visual recording.
Sources close to the investigation said a supervisor discovered the camera in January in a bathroom at Dallas Fire-Rescue Station 11.
It was disguised as a USB charger and had been at the station since at least Thanksgiving. But, investigators weren’t able to recover any data from it because the storage card was damaged.
Lawrence reportedly denied knowing the device was a camera at first. Then he claimed he brought it to work to find out who had been digging through his bags. Eventually, he told his supervisor he knew he was going to lose his job and end up in jail.
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Former Dallas firefighter arrested for hiding camera in bathroom
A former Dallas firefighter is accused of putting a hidden camera in the restroom of a fire station.
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“I’m about to lose everything,” he told Puente, according to the affidavit. “I’m going to jail. I’m going to lose my job and my kids, [my wife] is going to divorce me.”
“You guys are going to hate me, I’m not that guy.”
Several Station 11 firefighters, including Capt. Puente, expressed concerns to police that their family members may have been recorded or photographed by the hidden device, the affidavit reads. The device had been at Station 11 since at least Thanksgiving Day 2018 when it was discovered by another firefighter.
That firefighter’s wife had taken the device from the bathroom to charge her phone upstairs. The firefighter noticed the camera while plugging in the charger, but didn’t report it because he was a new firefighter and “didn’t want to draw attention to himself,” according to the affidavit. It's not clear whether that firefighter knew the device had been in the bathroom.
Two months later, when Puente found the camera, Lawrence allegedly “exhibited nervous behavior” and apologized to several fellow firefighters. Lawrence has a history of telling sexually graphic stories, sharing explicit photos and showing off sex toys at work, the affidavit says.
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A search of Lawrence's Kaufman County home found a container of “sexual related props” as well as “a hand-drawn caricature of a Dallas firefighter sitting on the toilet with his pants down,” according to the affidavit. Lawrence’s web history allegedly included several “voyeur” porn sites, including sites showing “what appeared to be footage from hidden cameras in bathrooms of women using the restroom.”
On Feb. 8, Lawrence told police he bought the device to “determine who was rummaging through his duffle bag at work” and that it was placed in the bathroom by accident, the affidavit reads. It says he first told police he didn’t have a laptop and later said his laptop had been broken and he threw it away.
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On Wednesday afternoon, WFAA reached out to City Manager Dr. John Hubbard who said over the phone that Lawrence would be allowed to keep working on the job until his criminal case is finished playing out.
At that time, both Hubbard and Hamilton said the city would decide what the fate of his employment would be.
But both men told WFAA that without seeing Lawrence's arrest documents and the narrative that was attached.
Once WFAA provided that information to both Hubbard and Hamilton, they called back and said that Lawrence would be placed on administrative leave until further notice.
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‘I’m about to lose everything’: Ex-Dallas firefighter busted for hidden camera in station bathroom, affidavit says
Craig Lawrence, who has a history of sexually explicit behavior in the workplace, has been arrested for invasive visual recording after a hidden camera was found in a fire station bathroom.
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